office system documents in comment and analysis
Steve Ranger's Notebook: How my iPod ate the weekend
Comment A friend of mine - who perhaps understandably wishes to remain nameless - recently spend a weekend organising his vast collection of USB memory sticks, clearing off old documents and such like. OK, so it's great for getting that quick query sorted... [05 Jun 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.05.07
Round-Up It would of course be replaced by the unnerving sight of people on treadmills trying to type and sweat-soaked documents landing on your desk with a faint 'splosh'. Compared to the more sedentary method of working - wedged into their office chairs... [18 May 2007]
Leader: Save the world - stay at home
Leader And as workforces grow ever more dispersed, physical media is increasingly going digital - software is now a service, documents are stored on servers rather than in paper form and so on - meaning less manufacturing of CDs, paper and other hard... [04 May 2007]
The killer app for M2M
Comment The highest profile M2M technology is currently RFID, a wireless tagging technology which has crossed over into the corporate arena where it is widely used for tracking documents and assets. The true value from such a system would be for workers to... [22 Feb 2007]
Paperless office - ages-old myth or valuable way forward?
Comment He adds that some companies are happy for the paper mail to be scrapped after it has been scanned into the system, while others insist on keeping the original documents. Despite the growth of electronic documents, email, PDAs, PDFs and the rest... [26 Jun 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Simple prescriptions for data headaches
Comment The solution is an implementation of the WebDAV standard, and enables users to open and save documents from industry standards applications such as Microsoft Office or Adobe Creative Suite. Information on what the organisation is doing - sales... [05 Apr 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Microsoft's foolish patent policy
Comment My immediate reaction was that XML documents were objects without the behaviour. One is to give the impression that Microsoft software, especially Office, is storing its data in an open format. If it is a patentable idea, then the whole patents... [07 Jun 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Does DRM make sense for business?
Comment It offers facilities such as time limits on documents, ensuring the expiry of guidelines or allowing a certain number of accesses, entering into the realms of more consumer-oriented DRM. At first glance DRM does look opportunistic, in that there is... [02 Jun 2005]
Leader: The open source comments you weren't supposed to see
Leader Leaked memos and drafts of important documents not meant for public consumption - though increasingly in the case of the latter readable through 'track changes' functionality in Word not being disabled - are nothing new. [28 Oct 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Over the moon
Comment We are currently edging towards a time when we will be able to economically store every significant bit produced including those created by making copies of all paper, and other forms of documents. Everything I do and communicate via my computers... [15 Jul 2004]
Microsoft still a collaboration lightweight
Comment For example, it has put in functions such as better backup for Office applications at the SharePoint Server end as more documents are shared. Microsoft's real-time tools have their origin in the workhorse Office suite as well, but its new Office... [21 Jun 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Programme management, car mobile ban and Office XML
Comment When Office 2003 was announced it included support for XML as a way of storing documents. Using the XML schemas, it becomes possible to integrate Office documents into business processes in a way that was not really possible before, without a lot... [23 Nov 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: App server league positions, Citrix improves MetaFrame and StarOffice 6
Comment Citrix has also tweaked the way server-hosted and local applications interoperate and it's overhauled the collaboration functions too, allowing multiple users in multiple locations to work on the same documents. [27 May 2002]
Model Management: Information overload, or short attention span?
Comment The book claims that trillions of documents circulate in US offices every year, internet traffic doubles every 100 days, and about 200 messages flood the average manager's desktop every day. Yet the enclosed office - with a door that could be... [04 Sep 2001]
John Lamb's Week: Sorting the holiday snaps from the smut
Comment A new company called Meridio launches on Thursday with a document management system that boasts the approval of the Public Records Office, which stores government documents. The system can be trained to recognise smutty films and pictures by... [29 Jun 2001]
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